Real estate daily dish

I knew it was just a matter of time before the city tried to sanitize the new part of the River Walk.

And who can resist a headline like, “City targeting motel with scent of death?”

This story looks at the Alamo Lodge, which the city wants to close after getting hundreds of 9-1-1 calls from the property. Nikk Khatri, 27, a nephew of the motel’s owners who works the front desk, is not happy.

The lodge is a two-story, yellow structure with 110 rooms. Motorists park in a paved courtyard where cicadas buzz in trees. On a tour Wednesday, Khatri pointed out that the museum stretch of the River Walk recently opened right next to the motel. He said no one paid attention to the lodge until the property was suddenly valuable.

“We’ve been here 12 years,” Khatri said. “Nobody’s cared about it until now.”

I’m loving this listing at LovelyListings.com, the site with listings too awful to be made up.

This is for all of you who always wanted a super secret bunker under your house, but could never find one in the MLS.

According to the listing, the basement leads to “a subterranean structure which is believed to have been constructed as a military facility in the 1950’s as a military command centre and operated until approximately 1985,” which is all oddly vague. But come to think of it, I don’t know for sure when the family room was added to my house; I guess I understand how you can forget to ask the right questions when you’re getting the keys from the previous owner.